While we found the host Bee to be very kind and helpful, the fact remains that this place is not – and never will be – a home away from home.
The apartment we rented and the others belonging to the same host, have probably never been real homes. They were likely bought for the sole purpose of renting out like hotel rooms. Which kinda sucks, as the very idea of Airbnb was to help folks on vacation find a nice home to stay at.
As soon as you walk in to the apartment we rented, you’ll notice how cheap and mismatched all the furniture and decorations are. It’s like a parody and the chairs are really saggy.
On a more practical level, there’s no shower curtain in the smaller bathroom, so the floor gets soaked every time you shower. There’s no bedside tables or reading lamps in either bedrooms, so you’ll be reading under the bright bluish ceiling lamps. I know is common for homes in Thailand to have this extremely bright light but it does not create a cosy and welcoming atmosphere at all. Specially when you want to read in the evening and the host hasn't bother to buy some decent reading lamps.
The entire place feels just old, crusty and looks very, very ugly. If beauty is in the eye of the beholder, you’d have to be completely blind not to see how little thought, care and taste have gone into decorating the place. Which we knew going in, so there wasn’t really a big surprise.
However, what we didn’t understand and which became increasingly frustrating, was that the advertized gym was not in working condition. In fact, it was instead used as a storage room. But even if it was free from all the boxes and ancient gym machines, it would still barely pass as a room where you could actually get some good cardio exercise. We wanted to use the treadmill , as running on the streets in Bangkok is not an option for us but the machine was gone so the images in the listing was not accurate.
While the apartments in this property are reasonably priced, you still need to be aware of how disinterested the owners are in making guest feel at home. Including a list of “rules” with attached fines that are disproportionately steep. Like the $100 fine for flushing toilet paper down the toilet and a $30 fine for staining the towels you have to rent if you didn’t bring your own.
No, I can’t recommend staying here. Even if the host Bee was friendly and helpful and the reception staff was very friendly as well.